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SUMMARY:Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: At home with t
 he Neanderthals: Excavations at la Cotte de St Brelade\, Jersey
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DESCRIPTION:The Neanderthals represent an incredibly successful and disti
 nctive experiment in being human\, they evolved as a separate human line
 age over half a million years before apparently disappearing around 40\,
 000 years ago. During this period they occupied large parts of Europe an
 d Western Asia\, developed sophisticated tools\, mastered fire and engag
 ed in the hunting of large mammals across a variety of different environ
 ments. \nLa Cotte de St Brelade\, on the Channel Island of Jersey\, is o
 ne of the best sites in the world for understanding Neanderthals and the
 ir achievement. In this lecture Dr Matt Pope will report on new work bei
 ng carried out on this mega-site and will consider the evolution and ult
 imate fate of our closest evolutionary relative\n
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DTSTART:20120614T121500Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: Virtual Visito
 rs: Why would anyone want to visit the virtual British Museum collection
 s online?
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DESCRIPTION:Launched in October 2007\, the British Museum provides virtua
 l access to objects and collections via an online database\, and by the 
 end of 2009 nearly 2 million records had been made available.  However\,
  why would anyone want to view a collection online rather than in person
 \, and what would they use it for?  \n\nThis Lunch Hour Lecture\, by Dr 
 Terras\, Deputy Director of UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities\, will d
 iscuss what is known about the use of this virtual online resource\, and
  if indeed it is even used.  This talk will also present analysis undert
 aken by UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities in conjunction with Claire R
 oss and Vera Motyckova and colleagues at the British Museum.\n
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DTSTART:20120621T121500Z
DTEND:20120621T125500Z
SUMMARY:Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: A book by any 
 other name would smell as sweet
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DESCRIPTION:Few people would fail to recognise the bittersweet and musty 
 smell of a historic library\, yet not many would know that this bouquet 
 also tells us what heritage objects are made of. To the heritage scienti
 st\, it is intensity of smells that often reveals how quickly objects de
 cay\, and the development of breathalysers for this purpose may help in 
 their conservation. This lecture will discuss how sniffing objects can t
 hus reveal crucial information\, and how smell is also part of an object
 ’s history and part of how we enjoy our heritage.
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DTSTAMP:20120224T162528Z
DTSTART:20120628T121500Z
DTEND:20120628T125500Z
SUMMARY:Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the British Museum: Discoveries an
 d re-evaluations: painting practices under the microscope
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DESCRIPTION:Paintings are not always what they seem to be on the surface.
  Technical investigation\, particularly of pigments\, has revealed not o
 nly surprising differences between the present and the original appearan
 ce of works – a violet colour transformed to pale orange\, for example -
  but also the use of unexpected ingredients for certain effects. Recogni
 sing the changes to colouring as well as identifying materials can lead 
 to re-evaluation of both the meaning and sometimes the date and attribut
 ion of images. This talk uncovers the practices of artists as different 
 as Hilliard and Reynolds\; highlighting those of Elizabethan portraitist
 s in the lifetime of Shakespeare.  It also asks what this new informatio
 n means. 
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